Recently hit Portage. Anyone tried it? I'm asking because I don't want to waste my time like I did with Skype 2.2, which crashed whenever I deleted a voicemail (even after fixing the other bugs, e.g. the Logs directory). I'm still using Skype 2.1.

Recently hit Portage. Anyone tried it? I'm asking because I don't want to waste my time like I did with Skype 2.2, which crashed whenever I deleted a voicemail (even after fixing the other bugs, e.g. the Logs directory). I'm still using Skype 2.1.

Thanks.

Same here BTW. 2.2 is quite crash prone Happy to have 2.1 left accidently on one of the machines to downgrade.

Given Windows Skype experience, further versions are more and more cumbersome, I wonder if 2.1 is the one to use even if latter come in. Simple and all relevant functionality is there.

Been searching for an open source VoIP platform that has all the functionality of Skype (DTFM, DID, voicemail, messaging, file transfer, video chat, etc.), but nothing hits the mark._________________Personal overlay | Simple backup scheme

I'm pretty sure ekiga is open source. When I played around with it a few years back I found the NAT traversal suspect, and you have to find a decent SIP provider to get your DID. Moreover, it doesn't support SRTP (though, neither do most SIP providers)._________________Personal overlay | Simple backup scheme

Been searching for an open source VoIP platform that has all the functionality of Skype (DTFM, DID, voicemail, messaging, file transfer, video chat, etc.), but nothing hits the mark.

Other problem besides even finding the alternative is to make your friends or sometimes random people to use compatible service.
Not to say, I often use Skype as a cheap phone service when on the road abroad.

Last edited by dmpogo on Fri Jun 15, 2012 8:20 am; edited 2 times in total

It is my only voice link to my wife during office hours since her department disabled phones in professors offices as a cost cutting measure. And there is no cell reception in her office to compound the issue.

1/ Was previously running 2.2.0.35-r1. I had not upgraded to r99 because r99 requires EMUL_VER=20120520.
As app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-soundlibs-20120520 is not yet stable and as I do not want to run ~arch with emul-linux-x86*...

Curiously 4.0.0.7 is happy with EMUL_X86_VER=20120127 so... /me as well !

2/ Apparently 4.0.0.7 behaves well without the Log directory and stop crunching MB of logs is indeed another good thing.

3/ I did not investigate much but it seems I lost in options/video the possibility to tune the contrast / luminosity / gamma ... parameters of my video.

4/ About 3... anyway... I no longer see my own face in the communication window... so... I do not feel... personally concerned... _________________

For me the new version its running very well till now,im very happy whit this new version,it finally saves my settings,and doesnt make my system crash.I hope this improvements will be permanent.I didnt tested the video/audio calls yet,but i guess they work good.

For 32 bits users : you need media-libs/tiff:3 to be able to run skype. This dependancy is not in the ebuild. I reported the bug.

Yes, see #1 in my post above -- thanks for reporting the bug.

One negative so far: the offline status icon and the invisible status icon are the same! This is annoying because those are my two most common states ...

Also, Skype 2.1.0.47 caused 10 wakeups per second in powertop, but this new one causes 30. However, my additional power draw on battery is roughly the same -- 0.2 to 0.3 watts when offline. Firefox is much worse, even when sitting on a static page ..._________________Personal overlay | Simple backup scheme

For 32 bits users : you need media-libs/tiff:3 to be able to run skype. This dependancy is not in the ebuild. I reported the bug.

Only if you are using USE="qt-static" and you shouldn't be using it anyway...
It's a workaround flag, a bit like www-client/firefox-bin which you temporarily might install after installing Gentoo while waiting for the real version to build among the world.

So to use Skype in the future we have to build the entire 32-bit Qt stack? Skype is the only Qt program I have on my machine, and I'm running 64-bit ..._________________Personal overlay | Simple backup scheme

For 32 bits users : you need media-libs/tiff:3 to be able to run skype. This dependancy is not in the ebuild. I reported the bug.

Only if you are using USE="qt-static" and you shouldn't be using it anyway...
It's a workaround flag, a bit like www-client/firefox-bin which you temporarily might install after installing Gentoo while waiting for the real version to build among the world.

I should really package.use.mask it away for security I guess.

Yep, it works with -qt-static use flag. my bug can be declared "invalid due to obsolete bad USE flag"_________________Kind regards,
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It's so disappointing that Skype 4 still does not have 64 bit version ._________________"Dear Enemy: may the Lord hate you and all your kind, may you be turned orange in hue, and may your head fall off at an awkward moment."
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1/ Was previously running 2.2.0.35-r1. I had not upgraded to r99 because r99 requires EMUL_VER=20120520.
As app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-soundlibs-20120520 is not yet stable and as I do not want to run ~arch with emul-linux-x86*...

Curiously 4.0.0.7 is happy with EMUL_X86_VER=20120127 so... /me as well !

OK this could not last long...
4.0.0.7-r2 now gets EMUL_X86_VER=20120520 ! !_________________

I think ssuominen updated the EMUL_VER because if people complain about bugs they only want to deal with the latest version -- no sense in supporting old 32-bit stuff._________________Personal overlay | Simple backup scheme

I think ssuominen updated the EMUL_VER because if people complain about bugs they only want to deal with the latest version -- no sense in supporting old 32-bit stuff.

USE="qt-static" requires the ~arch emul-linux-x86- for libtiff.so.4 file. USE="-qt-static" users can still use older emul-linux-x86-
but no sense in trying to separate the dependency between these since the ~arch emul-linux-x86- packages are about to go
stable anyways.
In other words, I recommend updating to latest emul-linux-x86- packages and be done with it

so, the elephant in the room for me - tabbed conversations rather than one window per conversation
as in, skype-2.x every new message opens a new window

i got around this using skypetab-ng - which works flawlessly

I will assume skypetab-ng hasnt been updated for skype-4.x, so the million dollar question: is the new version tabbed, or, one-window-for-every-conversation?

Were things not working swimmingly for me with skypetab-ng id probably take the plunge and do the upgrade, but well, life so far is good, so my incentive to upgrade is minimal.

EDIT: i went ahead and did the "screw it", upgraded. Went off without a hitch. Aesthetically, I don't like it as well as I did skype-2 with skypetab-ng, but "it'll do". It seems pretty boneheaded that Recent Conversations is a completely separate window from the contacts list, so that you can minimize one but not the other - with skypetab-ng the two are tied together. Oh well, at least I have new icons._________________Lost configuring your system?
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